Table 3.

Model parameters, see Appendix E for more details.

Parameter name	Symbol and value	Units	References
General parameters
Osteoblast diffusion constant	κdiff = 4.5 × 10−5	mm2day−1	Araujo et al., 2014
Domain size	Ly = 0.5, Lz = 0.04.	mm	−
Bone secretion rate parameter	η = 7.27 × 10−5	mmday−1	Araujo et al., 2014
Dendrite growth shape parameter	β = 25 × 10−3	mm	Hannah et al., 2010
Bone secretion shape parameter	ι = 15 × 10−3	mm	Araujo et al., 2014
Traveling wave parameters
Traveling wave speed (rate of bone formation)	$\tilde{\nu }=0.656$	μmday−1	Araujo et al., 2014
Mean number of osteocytes in contact with single osteoblast	$\langle \tilde{k}\rangle \mathrm{\text{Ob}}=1$ (Appendix E.6)	No units	Kamioka et al., 2001
Osteoblast surface density	$\tilde{p}=6\times 10^3$	mm−2	Buenzli et al., 2014
Osteocyte density	$\tilde{q}=2.375\times 10^4$	mm−3	Buenzli and Sims, 2015
Model dependent parameters (see section 2.1).
Dendrite growth scale parameter	α (model dependent)	day−1	−
Network-independent osteoblast differentiation scale parameter	λ (model dependent)	day−1	−
Network-dependent osteoblast differentiation scale parameter	γ (model dependent)	day−1	−